Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Edme Bouchardon - French Academy, Rome, 1723-1732

Edme Bouchardon
Study of the Apollo Belvedere
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of the Apollo Belvedere
ca. 1723-32
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Edme Bouchardon
Study of The Laocoön
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Emperor Commodus as Hercules
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Cupid and Dolphin
ca. 1723-32
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Edme Bouchardon
Study of Antique Relief - Nereid on Hippocamp
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Antique Relief - Nereid on Marine Bull
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Antique Relief - Nereids and Triton
ca. 1723-32
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Edme Bouchardon
Studies of Head from the Niobid Group
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Antique Head
ca. 1724-25
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon
Study of Antique Group, The Wrestlers
(from a cast at the French Academy in Rome)
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Triton Fountain, Piazza Barberini, Rome
ca. 1723-32
drawing
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Edme Bouchardon after Domenichino
St Matthew in Pendentive
(fresco, Basilica di Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome)
ca. 1724-25
drawing
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"Edme Bouchardon was considered his century's greatest sculptor by many contemporaries, but his classicizing style was out of step with French tastes for the Rococo.  Not only did King Louis XV offer few commissions, but of those commissions, most did not progress beyond the model stage.  After winning the Prix de Rome, Bouchardon got first-hand experience of antique sculpture in Rome from 1723 to 1732, where he gained fame and commissions, even from the pope.  In 1732 Bouchardon received an apartment in the Louvre, but was subsequently underemployed for a decade.  When the Salon was revived in 1737, Bouchardon exhibited his models as well as his famous red-chalk drawings; both were highly sought after by his peers, including François Boucher." 

– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles